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Welcome to The FREE, Government Auctions UK Newsletter Back to archive   In this issue: Public sales INTERNET: Get going, going, gone on eBay Will Bennett On Client Services At Auction Houses. Christie's to Sell Partridge's Furniture, Art for $10.6 Million Positive Club Hi, PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS INFORMATION APPEARS IN THE NEWS SECTION AT THE MEMBERS' AREA AT GOVERNMENT AUCTIONS AS SOON AS WE RECEIVE IT. FULL DETAILS ABOUT EACH AUCTIONEEER CAN BE FOUND AT THE SITE. The GAUK Newsletter is our regular FREE auction news bulletin designed to keep you updated with news, latest sales, auction results and general pieces of interesting auction information that have occurred throughout the week. It is also published as an RSS feed, the very latest in technology which you need to take advantage of, allowing you to recieve news from all your favourite news sourches when you want it. This is a supplement to information contained in the main GAUK Database and is an additional service. Please Read On...

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Suffolks
Date 11 Jan 2006 12:00

Re: PC Trailers Ltd Viewing: Day Prior 10am to 4pm and morning of sale from 9am Catalogue Info: Contact the Auctioneers Content: HGV TRAILER REPAIR WORKSHOPS & ASSOCIATED VEHICLES

Vehicles
'97P LDV 400 Convoy D LWB panel van/mobile workshop complete with compressor
'95N Scania 113M 360 6 wheel tractor unit tested - 01.07
'03 Mercedes Atego 7.5 ton curtain sider tested - 04/06

Toyota 25 diesel forklift with sideshift

7 ton trailer loading ramp
Dunlop optical wheel alignment system
60' long x 20'wide x 18' high workshop
4 room portacabin complete with contents

Dunlop optical wheel alignment system and a quantity of associated tools including air impact wrenches, welders, sundries etc

Heavy Duty Pallet Racking and Warehouse Steps.
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Canter & Francis
Thursday 12th January 2006 at 12noon

AN EXCELLENT SELECTION OF MODERN HOUSEHOLD & RESTAURANT FURNITURE AND EFFECTS

FINE 3 SEATER SETTEE SUITE IN BLUE LEATHER, continental style green leather settee & chair, bed settee suite,
2 SEATER SETTE SUITE IN GREEN DRAYLON, cream leather settee & chair, 2 BLUE & GOLD DRAYLON SETTEE'S & FOOTSTOOL, fireside chairs,
39 MEDIUM OAK UPHOLSTERED DINING/RESTAURANT CHAIRS, 8 DARK OAK DINING TABLES, 5 SMALLER DARK OAK DINING TABLES, upright piano,
EXCELLENT CONTINENTAL STYLE OAK DINING SET COMPRISING CABINET, TABLE & 6 CHAIRS, & CORNER UNIT, gate legged table & 4 chairs, swivel office chair, MODERN TABLE & 4 CHAIRS, hall table,
2 PINE SINGLE PEDESTAL DESKS, lounge units, tv cabinet, octagonal coffee table, bookcase, VARIOUS STANDS,
BEDSIDE CUPBOARDS, COFFEE TABLES ETC., LARGE JARMAN PLATT CREAM & GILT BEDROOM UNIT WITH MATCHING HEADBOARD, odd wardrobes, dressing tables & chests, 4 EXCELLENT PINE CHESTS OF DRAWERS, bedroom unit, BEDROOM SUITES, 2 SILENTNIGHT SINGLE DIVANS, EXCELLENT ADJUSTAMATIC ELECTRIC CONTROL SINGLE BED,
MITSUBISHI COLOUR TV, Hitachi portable colour tv, 3 colour tv's, TOSHIBA & MATSUI VHS VIDEO RECORDERS, Sharp microwave, electric kettles, toasters, irons etc., electric fan, HOOVER CLEANER, magic broom,
FRIDGE FREEZER, 3 ZANNUSSI AUTOMATIC WASHERS, fridge, USUAL SELECTION OF SMALL & TABLE ITEMS, household & bed linen, books, pictures etc., REPRODUCTION HMV PHONOGRAPH, motor mower, wooden extending ladder.
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Friday 20th January 2006
Antique & Fine Art Auction

ANTIQUE & REPRODUCTION FURNITURE, SILVER, PLATE & JEWELLERY
CERAMICS, OILS, WATERCOLORS, BRONZES, IVORIES & COLLECTABLES.
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Willingham Auctions
Saturday 21st January 2006

Sale 1 - Antique and general sale, including jewellery
Sale 2 - Furniture for restoration, oak and cottage furniture, followed by Antique furniture, clocks, rugs, paintings, silver and plate, china and glass.
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Moodys
Date/ 25 Jan 2006 11:30

Reason for Sale: RE: Princes Soft Drinks Viewing: January 24 from 8.30 - 5pm and on the day of the sale. Catalogue Info: Content: PROCESS EQUIPMENT, TANKS & VESSELS, FILLING LINES & EQUIPMENT, SERVICES & SUNDRY

1996 Sprinter case packer
2002 APV tubular pasteuriser
1992 FKI Babcock Robery 14,000 lb/hr dual fuel boiler
A & F Jovenburg case packer
2 x 1994 PSV 30,000 ltr stainless steel jacketed silos
2002 APV smoothy plant
Federal 26/8 rotary filler
2 x 18,000 ltr stainless steel, agitated single skin tanks
Federal 15/5 rotary filler
AIS debagging table
2 x Alvey Europe case palletisers feeding Octopus pallet stretch wrapper
2 x 4,500 and 4 x 5,000 ltr finished product tanks
Bottle lowerator
Krones Autocol self-adhesive labeller
2 x 3,000 ltr stainless steel agitated tanks
Stainless steel manual debagging table
Case elevator
15,000 ltr bunded chemical storage tank
Graham labeller
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Calder Valley Auctions
THURSDAY 26TH JANUARY at 10.30am
On View: Wednesday 25 th January 2pm – 7pm

QUALITY SMALL FURNITURE
PORCELAIN - POTTERY (PARTICULARLY BESWICK, CLARICE CLIFF & MOORCROFT)
SILVER - ELECTROPLATE
GLASS - JEWELLERY – ART NOUVEAU - ART DECO
OIL PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS & PRINTS
BOOKS – STAMPS - CLOCKS AND WATCHES - TOYS
AND INTERESTING COLLECTABLES.
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INTERNET: Get going, going, gone on eBay

HAVE you been given un-wanted Christmas presents and don't know what to do with them?

An Introduction to eBay course is being held at Peterborough College of Adult Education, in Brook Street, city centre, next month which will teach you how to use the website well.

Novices can learn how to register with the site, how to buy and sell items and what to watch out for.

The course will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2006, from 10am, and costs £11.

Jackie Hall, market development manager, said: "eBay is one of the most popular internet auction sites in the world. Millions of people buy and sell items on it every day.

"Many people buy items at a fraction of the retail price on eBay and sell unwanted items to earn a bit of money.

"This course will help people find out more about eBay and how to avoid making errors."

The course is expected to be especially popular after the festive season, as many people will have been given Christmas presents they want to sell, or are looking to sell items to earn some extra cash at this time of year.

eBay allows users to buy and sell a huge variety of items, from CDs, DVDs, furniture, cars, jewellery and clothing, to more obscure items such as specialist fishing equipment, retro fashion and football sticker books.

The site's motto is: "Whatever it is, you can get it here."

Jackie said: "eBay is a great site to visit if you want to buy or sell items and has become very popular over recent years.

"There are some fantastic bargains to be had, but unfortunately some people have no idea how to use the site or what to look out for.

"This is a basic course to get rid of the fear that some people have with using the site. It is a basic course, which is easy to understand and covers everything you need to know."
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Will Bennett On Client Services At Auction Houses

The auction world has undergone a great transformation over the past three decades. In the mid-'70s, London salerooms sold lots priced in guineas mostly to dealers who had looked through catalogues with few pictures, no pre-sale estimates and little background information.
The British art market's international attitude was illustrated by one senior auction-house executive who binned a letter bearing a French stamp without even opening it.

Today, the three biggest auction houses - Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams - all operate worldwide, produce glossy colour catalogues packed with pictures and research and containing estimates that may or may not turn out to be accurate. The biggest change of all is that the salerooms have moved from being wholesalers to retailers. Dealers are still major buyers, and sometimes sellers, but much of the auction houses' time is now spent wooing private clients.
It was this, and also probably concern about fierce competition from a resurgent Christie's, that lay behind an announcement by Sotheby's in London last week. Henry Wyndham, who has been Sotheby's European chairman since 1997, is to share his duties with Lord Poltimore, until now chairman of 19th-century European, Victorian and Modern British paintings. Wyndham is keeping the title of European chairman and, while continuing to deal with some British clients, will concentrate on continental countries.

Poltimore becomes UK chairman and will spend 70 per cent of his time running the company's business in Britain while continuing some of his current work in Russia and Scandinavia. This has led to speculation that Wyndham is scaling down his role at Sotheby's and might even be leaving, but he denies this.

"I am sticking around. I will still be here," he says. "It is too big a job for one person."
The new job-sharing arrangement reflects the fact that where auction houses once largely relied on whatever was brought in for sale, senior executives now spend much of their time travelling to drum up business. Poltimore estimates that there were only four or five weeks last year when he was not on the road on the behalf of Sotheby's. Wyndham says that in an average year he spends between 60 and 100 evenings networking.

Much of this effort is devoted to building long-term relationships with art owners and their families, who will, hopefully, sell through people they have got to know. The value of this was demonstrated last year when Christie's sold the collection of the late Portuguese businessman Antonio Champalimaud for almost £39 million, while Old Master paintings auctioned by Brenda, Lady Cook fetched £9 million. Sotheby's was not invited to tender in either case.

However, most major auction consignments are now decided after contests between Sotheby's and Christie's ranging from informal chats with clients over a cup of coffee to full-scale marketing pitches promising exhibitions, hardback catalogues, evening sales and financial guarantees.
Putting together an auction of Impressionist and Modern Art involves a lot of travel, a good contacts book - and luck. There was never any doubt, for example, that Joan Miró's L'Oiseau au plumage déployé vole vers l'arbre argenté, expected to fetch £4.5 million to £6.5 million in London on February 7, would be auctioned by Sotheby's. It belongs to Anne Marion, wife of the company's former top auctioneer John Marion.

But auction houses now spend almost as much time getting to know buyers as they do sellers, particularly in emerging markets. Poltimore will soon be off to Russia to talk to some of Moscow's new rich about a collection of paintings by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, to be sold by the shipping magnate Fred Olsen at Sotheby's in London next month.

Initially, Russians who made fortunes in the post-Soviet era concentrated on buying their own country's art, but now they are spreading their wings.

"One key new buyer with a big chequebook can make a significant difference to the market," says Wyndham. So the houses now have departments devoted entirely to "client services" and senior staff fan out across the world to wine, dine and charm those who could make the difference between triumph and disappointment in the saleroom.
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Christie's to Sell Partridge's Furniture, Art for $10.6 Million.

Christie's International, the world's largest auction house, is buying commissions by bankrolling the takeover of Partridge Fine Arts Plc, a furniture and art dealer whose sales were hurt by changing fashions and trends in tourism.

The agreement passed a hurdle yesterday as Partridge shareholders voted in directors including Mark Law, leader of the acquiring group, and David Mellor, a former U.K. arts minister. A 51 percent purchase of London-based Partridge should be completed next month, allowing Christie's to auction assets in May, said Brian Stockbridge, an adviser to Law's group.

Christie's has put a low value of 6 million pounds ($10.6 million) on the sale of Partridge's furniture and art, which is scheduled for New York. The proceeds will be used to repay Christie's for a 4 million-pound loan to Law's group. Christie's also will earn commissions, normally 20 percent on the first $200,000 of each lot's hammer price, and 12 percent on the rest.

``Christie's has worked to assist in creating a solution for the future of Partridge through this innovative financial arrangement,'' the auction house said in a statement e-mailed to Bloomberg News. ``The deal reflects our commitment to the future of this highly important member of the art trade.''

Christie's, owned by the French billionaire Francois Pinault, has overtaken Sotheby's Holdings Inc. partly by gaining such sales. Auction totals for 2005, which Christie's may announce this week, will pass $3 billion, Chief Executive Officer Edward Dolman said on Jan. 5. Sotheby's totals will be a bit more than $2.7 billion, William Ruprecht, Sotheby's chief executive, told Bloomberg News on the same day.

Fewer Visitors

Partridge, founded by the Partridge family in 1911, sells English and French antique furniture, art and silver on London's New Bond Street. In February, it reported a loss for 2004, citing a lower U.S. dollar and fewer visitors to London, and said it was in talks that might lead to a takeover offer.
Law, who is now Partridge's executive chairman, is a dealer in English porcelain who has been selling antiques for 20 years, according to an e-mailed statement today. Mellor, who will be a non-executive director, is a business consultant and broadcaster, with his own program on Classic FM radio, the statement said.

Partridge's shares have dropped 26 percent in a year, cutting the market value to 9.6 million pounds. Through Amor Holdings Ltd., the Laws group is offering 4 million pounds for 51 percent of Partridge. Holders could get extra money depending on the proceeds of Christie's auction, and Amor has committed to buy the remaining shares within four years, Stockbridge said.
The auction isn't a prelude to liquidating the antiques dealer, he said. ``The plan is to allow the business, the name and the heritage to go forward.''

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